This study took into account exposure resulting from conventional radiology, computed tomography (CT), diagnostic nuclear medicine, and interventional radiology. Its objective was to...

The Occupational Health Department of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance has established and coordinates a program to develop job-exposure matrices tailored to the...

Introduction - The Cosmop project involves the systematic analysis of a mortality surveillance cohort by occupation and economic sector within the general population. Method - The first...

As of August 23, 2005, Angola’s Ministry of Health reported 374 cases (329 deaths) of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, including 368 cases in the northern province of Uíge. The response to...

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare but serious larval cestodiasis caused by the development of the Echinococcus multilocularis (E. multilocularis) larva in the liver. It requires...

Non-foodborne zoonoses vary widely in terms of causative agents, modes of transmission, geographic distribution, and significance for human and animal public health. Since its creation,...

Introduction - Recent studies of the adult population suggest that social status influences the use of both legal and illegal psychoactive substances differently among men and women,...

The international literature on women and addiction distinguishes, on the one hand, between publications dealing with sex—that is, the physiological differences in how psychoactive...

Kidney transplants account for the majority of organ transplants performed in our country: 2,423 of the 3,948 transplants performed in 2004 (61.4%). Kidney transplantation improves both...